FM Cultural Calendar | Starting Sunday, February 24, 2013

Special Anniversary Concert: Chanticleer The 20th anniversary season of Music in a Great Space culminates with the return of the ever-popular, Grammy-winning Chanticleer, known the world over as "an orchestra of voices." "The world's reigning male chorus," praised by the San Francisco Chronicle for its "tonal luxuriance and crisply etched clarity," returns with choral music from around the world, of the highest quality.02/24/2013Time: 4:00 pmShadyside Presbyterian Church, 5121 Westminster Pl, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map

Academy Chamber Ensemble - All-Mozart Concert The Academy Chamber Ensemble, directed by Warren Davidson, will perform a duo for violin and viola, two charming works for flute and strings, and the sublime String Quintet in C major. The informal evening will include interesting tales of Mozart's life and the particular origins of these compositions.02/25/2013Time: 7:30 pmAndrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Ave., Carnegie, PAwebsite | map

BYOB - Shakespeare's GhostsBring Your Own Bard is PSIP’s informal scene night. Professional actors and non-actors read favorite Shakespeare. Feb. 25th will feature pieces about ghosts, goblins, witches, and other creatures of the night: the ghost of a murdered father, a spirit who invites himself to dinner, goblins wreaking mischief and witches chanting obscure prophecy.02/25/2013Time: 7:15 pm

Benjamin Britten's The Little SweepCelebrating the centennial of Benjamin Britten, Microscopic Opera stages "The Little Sweep," part of "Let's Make an Opera," which was a play-and-opera combo created for young people in 1949.03/01/2013 - 03/03/201303/01 - 7:00 pm03/02 - 4:00 pm03/02 - 7:00 pm03/03 - 2:00 pm03/03 - 4:00 pm

Celtic ConnectionsWhat do Scottish, Irish, and Kentucky Bluegrass music have in common? They share the five-note bagpipe scale. That's a celtic connection! And with St. Paddy's day looming, what better excuse to dust off the bagpipes, put on our dancing shoes and don the kilt? Join us, with school bands from all over the region, as well as the pipes and drums of the Balmoral School of Piping in the explosion of all that is celtic. Guest soloist: Detective Rick Manning.03/01/2013 - 03/14/2013Time: various

Ultra Lounge ShowFive by Design's show is set in the format of a faux radio broadcast from a tiki lounge, transporting you to exotic locales in Hawaii, the Caribbean, Brazil and Morocco. This musical travelogue includes the songs Mambo Italiano, Danke Schoen, That Old Black Magic, and more.03/02/2013Time: 8:00 pm27 E. Main St., Uniontown, PAwebsite | map